Abstract
The idea that the African Atlantic world was populated by Atlantic Creoles who crossed cultural divides with relative ease is appealing, and it lends itself well to studies of identity formation that highlight the talents and opportunities that emerged from processes of cultural blending. Yet an examination of how travelling Africans ascribed meaning to their spatial and emotional groundings underlines that creolization in the African Atlantic was less smooth than suggested by the figure of the Atlantic Creole. For Frederik Svane and Christian Protten, two Euro-African men born on the Gold Coast in the early eighteenth century, Creole conditions resulted in identity practices that ranged from the complete rejection of African culture to a celebration and redefinition of the significance of African origins in the Atlantic world.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Pages (from-to) | 91-115 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| ISSN | 0165-1153 |
| Publication status | Published - 13 Jul 2015 |
Keywords
- Faculty of Humanities